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by owen

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I have built a Win 2000 Server and set up a domain. I can join this domain successfully every time I try it from any of my workstations, though when I then restart the workstation and attempt to logon with one of the user accounts I get the error message 'The domain is unavailable'

My DNS server is running ok on the server and all settings are correct. The DNS settings are entered correctly in the TCP/IP settings on the workstation.

Does anyone please have any idea what might be wrong here ?

Many Thanks in advance,

Owen Benneyworth

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by inxale

Though your DNS settings are correct can you PING the DNS server by name from the workstation?

What happens when you do a NSLOOKUP from both the workstation and DNS server?

Rgds

by owen

I can't access the workstation (or any of them at the moment) as I'm on site, but can get to the server remotely.

When I do NSLOOKUP it says:
Can't find servername for ip address 192.168.1.2: Non-existant domain
Can't find servername for ip address 192.168.1.1: No response from server
Default server Unknown

Once in NSLOOKUP from the > I have typed server (this is the server name) and get:
Server: Unknown
address: 192.168.1.2

name: server.munday.local
address: 192.168.1.2

My network details are:
Domain controller named 'Server'
Ip address: 192.168.1.2
Router Ip: 192.168.1.1

Rgds

by jguasch

Do you have computer browsing enabled? if the work station is in another subnet then you will need wins.

Your workstation needs to be able to browse and see the domain controller before you can communicate to it.

Try this, Disable the service Computer browser on your work station. Then edit the registry on your domain controller under

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters
Type: REG_SZ
Name: IsDomainMaster
Value: True

Then restart your domain controller.. when your domain controller is up and running, Restart your desktop.

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